Monday, April 27, 2020
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Genovese gangster seeks early prison release due to coronavirus
Longmeadow gangster Ralph Santaniello has joined the ranks of scores of other inmates across the country vying to cut their prison terms short over coronavirus concerns.
Santaniello, 52, is nearing the end of a five-year prison term
for extorting a tow company operator and a gambling debtor in 2013 as
he portrayed himself as the new face of the New York-based Genovese
crime family in Western Massachusetts.
Santaniello
was already just weeks away from leaving the Loretto Federal
Correctional Institute in western Pennsylvania, according to court
records.
He
has been jailed at the facility along with high-profile inmates
including Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign
advisor. Manafort is serving a 7-year sentence
for convictions on a series of charges including tax evasion, failing
to report foreign bank accounts, witness tampering and unregistered
lobbying for foreign interests. The 71-year-old disgraced lobbyist filed
his own appeal to shorten his sentence over COVID-19 fears last week.
During
a telephonic hearing before Worcester U.S. District Judge Timothy
Hillman Tuesday, an attorney for Santaniello focused his argument on the
fragility of Santaniello’s daughter, who has suffered from a rare
disease since birth.
“Massachusetts
itself along with Chicago is the coronavirus hotspot of the country
right now,” argued his defense attorney, Daniel D. Kelly. “He could lose
his daughter.”
Kelly told the judge Santaniello is set to be released to a pre-release center in Ludlow on May 12, at any rate.
“He
will be released to a halfway house 21 days from today,” Kelly said,
appealing to Hillman to instead release his client early to his parents’
house in Longmeadow right away.
U.S.
Department of Justice Trial Attorney Marianne Shelvey opposed
Santaniello’s motion for early release, and was quick to point out that
Santaniello may be barred from living with his parents because his
father, 81, also is a convicted felon.
“Talk to me about that, what’s going on there?” Hillman interjected.
“Amedeo
Santaniello is an associate of the Genovese crime family. He’s been
convicted in both federal and state court for gambling and similar
crimes to this defendant,” Shelvey responded.
The elder Santaniello’s last prison sentence came after illegal gambling convictions in 1989.
Ralph
Santaniello pleaded guilty to shaking down Springfield towing czar
Craig “CJ” Morel for $20,000 after discovering Morel previously paid
slain mob boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno tribute payments for city contracts
until Bruno’s murder in 2003. Santaniello and co-defendant Giovanni
“Johnny Cal” Calabrese approached Morel at his property in Hampden a
decade later, and demanded the money.
Santaniello
cuffed Morel hard on the side of his face to make his point, Morel told
police. Santaniello and his cohorts continued to cajole and terrorize
Morel for payments over several weeks; Morel agreed to wear a wire at
the behest of the state police and FBI during meetings with the men.
Morel also filed a statement opposing Santaniello’s early release, according to Shelvey.
Santaniello,
Calabrese and three others were arrested and charged in extortion
conspiracies in 2016. Santaniello received the lengthiest sentence, and
was described by Shelvey as the “enforcer, the fear and the violence”
within the slapdash Springfield crew.
Calabrese
has filed his own petition for early early release, also based on
COVID-19 anxieties within the prison system, court records show. He is
scheduled for release in late November and is serving out his sentence
in Kentucky.
In
addition to making the “compassionate release" argument, as it is
called within the federal sentencing system, Kelly said sending
Santaniello to a so-called step-down program doesn’t make practical
sense in the coronavirus era.
“Most
if not all the jobs he would be eligible for — in the restaurant
industry, et cetera — are going to be shut down for the foreseeable
future in this pandemic,” Kelly said.
Hillman took the matter under advisement, telling attorneys he will issue a ruling in short order.
https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/jailed-mob-figure-ralph-santaniello-seeks-early-release-over-covid-19-concerns.html
Two Staten Island mobsters released from prison due to coronavirus
Two
Staten Island reputed mobsters were recently released from prison amid
concerns of catching the coronavirus while behind bars, federal court
papers show.
Both Eugene "Boobsie" Castelle, a Staten Island man and reputed soldier in the Lucchese organized crime family, and Daniel "Shrek" Capaldo, a Staten Islander and alleged Colombo crime family associate, asked to be released from prison on March 31.
Federal
Judge Alvin Hellerstein ordered the release of Castelle “in light of
defendant’s ailing health and concomitant risk to defendant from the
COVID-19 pandemic” shortly after, court papers show.
Hellerstein
granted Castelle release on bail while he is waiting for the outcome of
his appeal on his 2019 conviction for his connection with an illegal
gambling operation.
The
60-year-old reputed Lucchese soldier had detailed to his lawyer Richard
Levitt an episode in which he fell ill while at the federal
correctional institution in Danbury, Conn. -- where he recently returned
after falling ill with pneumonia.
“I
[started] to feel sick all over again with shortness of breath,
back-ache, coughing again, but as [per] usual our concerns fall on deaf
ears,” Castelle wrote. “The last time it took an act of God for the
lieutenant to call 911 at 4 a.m. because three guys saw that I couldn’t
breathe and I was coughing and choking my brain out.”
Castelle
was released on April 3 to an undisclosed location on the condition
that he “shall remain self-quarantined for 14 days after his release,
subject to location monitoring,” court papers show.
On
April 16, Hellerstein granted 14 additional quarantine days to Castelle
as “he had been seriously ill during the first many days of his
quarantine with symptoms suggesting COVID-19, but is presently
improving,” his lawyer stated in a letter asking for the extension.
Capaldo, 55, was also released from prison, court papers show.
Capaldo, who was indicted among 20 suspects
on wide-ranging charges of racketeering, extortion, loansharking and
stalking, as well as attempting to fix an NCAA college basketball game,
is also seeking release, court papers indicate.
Peter
Guadagnino, Capaldo’s attorney, filed an emergency bail application on
Sunday which indicates that Dr. Mazan Rabadi — who observed Capaldo’s
medical records — believes Capaldo’s chance for survival if “infected
with COVID-19 is poor.”
“I
find that Mr. Capaldo suffers from underlying lung disease and he has
used a bronchodilator for most of his life,” Dr. Rabadi wrote in a
health assessment supporting Capaldo’s request. “If he contracts
COVID-19, this will lead to him having severe bronchospasm which will
lead to his respiratory failure, leading to intubation and being put on a
respirator.”
Capaldo
is was released to home incarceration and “restricted to home at all
times, except for attorney visits, court appearances and medical
treatment,” court records show.
JUDGE DENIES RELEASE OF THIRD MOBSTER
Federal
Judge Jesse Furman denied John Matera’s application to be released from
prison after his lawyer said he was battling coronavirus.
Matera,
49, a reputed Gambino associate, pleaded guilty in September 2004 to
racketeering conspiracy in connection with the murder of Frank Hydell,
then 31, who was killed in front of the former Scarlett’s strip club in
South Beach in 1998, Advance records show.
“Hey
buddy and not to be crazy but I’m sick as a dog I have every symptom,”
Matera wrote in an email to his lawyer, Seth Ginsberg, on April 1,
before he tested positive for the coronavirus, court filings indicate.
“No one is doing anything here can’t even see no one. Doctors are gone,
they have social workers acting like doctors and there [sic] treating us
like we did some thing wrong.”
Ginsberg
stated in a letter filed on April 6 requesting his client’s release
that Matera had tested positive for COVID-19 and was placed in the
Special Housing Unit (SHU) at the correctional institution, which is
“typically utilized for punitive reasons.”
“Indeed,
the psychological effects of isolation are well documented under normal
circumstances. In the present circumstances, where Matera is battling a
life-threatening infection, being deprived of virtually all human
contact, both physical and otherwise, is a terrifying prospect,”
Ginsberg wrote.
Judge
Furman did not agree with Ginsberg and deemed the motion to be released
from prison “premature," he wrote in the letter denying Matera release.
“That
is not to say that the Court is unconcerned about Matera’s condition,''
Furman wrote. "Even if, as the government represents, he has ‘a mild
case of COVID-19’ and his current condition is ‘stable,’ the Court
trusts that the government, including the Bureau of Prisons, will
closely monitor Matera’s health and diligently take all necessary steps —
medical, legal, or otherwise — to ensure that he receives appropriate
care and does not expose other inmates or prison staff to danger.”
https://www.silive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/two-alleged-si-mobsters-released-from-prison-due-to-the-coronavirus.html
Friday, April 17, 2020
Judge releases legendary Bonanno captain from prison due to declining health and coronavirus concerns
This old fella is getting out of the can.
Vincent Asaro, 85, who dodged a guilty conviction in the notorious 1978 Lufthansa heist depicted in Martin Scorsese’s film “Goodfellas,” was ordered released from prison by a Brooklyn judge Friday over concerns about coronavirus and the longtime mobster’s rapidly declining health.
The Bonnano family capo pleaded guilty in 2017 to ordering associates — including the late Gambino boss John Gotti’s grandson — to burn the car of a man who cut him off in Howard Beach.
“Asaro’s age, in combination with his deteriorating health, constitutes an extraordinary and compelling reason for his release,” wrote Brooklyn Federal Judge Allyne Ross, in her ruling. “In addition, the combination of the COVID-19 health crisis and Asaro’s age and pre-existing conditions constitutes an extraordinary and compelling reason for his release.”
Asaro, who is currently being held at a federal medical facility in Missouri, suffered a stroke in 2019 and now struggles to speak in complex sentences, feed himself and use the bathroom on his own. He even forgot the names of his children, according to defense lawyers.
Judge Ross determined that Asaro no longer posed a real threat to society if released.
“While I do not know whether Asaro currently has the ability or the power to command others in his organization to carry out criminal acts at his will, I do not believe that, given Asaro’s current state, his release would put the public at a significantly increased risk of danger,” Ross wrote. “And, considering his impairments ... he is not likely to be orchestrating complex criminal schemes.”
Federal authorities who opposed the application for compassionate release, are reviewing the decision and considering their legal options, a spokesman said.
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-goodfellas-vincent-asaro-released-20200417-jo4davi27fbn3azfslekarnxfu-story.html
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Feds want to seize jailed Colombo mobster's settlement money for restitution
At least mobster Thomas “Tommy Shots” Gioeli still has his health.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors want Gioeli — who collected a $250,000 slip-and-windfall settlement for a 2013 prison ping-pong fall that fractured his since-healed kneecap — to forfeit $182,000 for restitution.
The money would go to victims of crimes committed by the one-time Colombo family street boss and his crew back in the ’90s.
“The only significant asset owned by the defendant that the government has been able to locate is the settlement funds,” prosecutors wrote in their 10-page Brooklyn Federal Court filing. “The fact that the settlement funds are the defendant’s only significant asset is confirmed by the defendant’s own statements . . . concerning his lack of income and status.”
Gioeli, 67, recovered from his injuries and is serving an 18½-year sentence at the federal prison in Danbury, Conn. He was convicted of conspiring to kill supporters of then-Colombo boss Vittorio "Little Vic" Orena during a bloody war for control of the crime family.
The court filing comes five months after Brooklyn Federal Judge Brian Cogan ruled that Gioeli’s settlement money should go to compensate a Chemical Bank branch and a business named Furs by Mina. He was ordered to pay the bank roughly $200,000 and the fur store an additional $150,000.
The gangster’s attorney, Jennifer Louis-Jeune, declined comment.
Gioeli filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons following the August 2013 table tennis tumble after skidding in a puddle near the showers in the Metropolitan Detention Center. The inmate was hospitalized for 30 days and eventually settled for $250,000.
The money was placed in an interest-bearing account under the supervision of a federal judge pending resolution of the case.
The feds say they are turning to Gioeli’s settlement money after “due diligence” found no trace of his ill-gotten gains from years past.
“The only inference to be drawn from the financial investigator’s review is that the proceeds have been dissipated by either the defendant or his co-defendants,” prosecutors wrote.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-slip-and-fall-ping-pong-mobster-restitution-20200415-yekdqaqfdbbmdnhdk7xyjvqvty-story.html
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Killer of Gambino boss has court case adjourned until June
The pretrial conference for alleged mob-boss killer Anthony Comello has been pushed back six weeks.
The conference was originally scheduled for next Monday in state Supreme Court, St. George.
However,
since mid-March, efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus
(COVID-19) disease have severely curtailed court operations in cases
considered non-essential. There have been no new jury trials.
The conference is now scheduled for June 1, online state court records show.
At Comello’s last court conference on Feb. 7, Justice William E. Garnett said he anticipated holding a final status conference on April 20 and possibly setting a trial date.
Defense
lawyer Robert Gottlieb had said then he has four other trials scheduled
in the coming months in various jurisdictions that may occupy him
through June.
In
view of coronavirus restrictions at both state and federal courthouses,
it is unclear how many, if any, of those cases have gone to trial or
been otherwise resolved.
Prosecutors
allege Comello, 25, fatally shot Gambino crime family boss Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, 53, outside Cali’s Dongan Hills home on March 13,
2019.
Comello is charged with murder and criminal weapon possession.
Authorities have not publicly commented on a possible motive.
In court papers, Gottlieb contends Comello was deluded by conspiracy theories and was defending himself when he shot the victim.
In a videotaped interview with a detective after his arrest, Comello gave conflicting and sometimes bizarre accounts of the shooting during the course of the three-and-a-half-hour interrogation.
In
fact, at the end of the February court conference, he launched into a
strange, rambling 20-second monologue in which he said his phone had
contained information on human sex trafficking and drug smuggling.
Then,
in quick succession, Comello referenced Australia, Russia and Ukraine,
as well as “Operation Mockingbird,” without further details.
The
latter is an alleged large-scale CIA program dating to the 1950s which
attempted to manipulate the news media for propaganda purposes.
Meanwhile, the defendant appears to have undercut the viability of a potential insanity defense.
At the February conference, Gottlieb said the Eltingville resident refuses to be examined by prosecutors’ psychiatric expert.
The defendant’s failure to submit to the exam would preclude his own psychiatric experts from testifying at trial.
But, lay witnesses could offer psychiatric testimony.
https://www.silive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/alleged-mob-boss-killers-court-case-adjourned-to-june.html
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Jailed Gambino captain pleads for early release due to coronavirus
An alleged mobster and a former New York City police officer are looking to be released from federal prison due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Federal court proceedings are being done remotely due to COVID-19, and News 12 listened in on two separate court conferences before a federal judge.
The first was for Valerie Cincinelli, a 35-year-old ex-New York City police officer from Oceanside. She's charged with murder-for-hire and obstruction of justice for allegedly plotting to kill her ex-husband and her boyfriend's teenage daughter.
Since her arrest last year, Cincinelli has maintained her innocence. She is being held without bail.
Her lawyer, James Kousouros, made a motion to a federal judge to release Cincinelli on bail pending her trial. He says there's additional text message evidence that proves her innocence, and that she's at risk of contracting COVID-19.
"She was designated to the do the laundry for incoming inmates and other inmates at the facility," says Kousouros. "So she was placed in a high-risk situation with only gloves, no mask, so she actually is, and has been put, in a position where she could contract the virus."
The government argued that the "defendant has failed to identify any qualifying change in circumstances; has failed to demonstrate a specific vulnerability to illness related to COVID-19."
The judge postponed a decision until Monday.
The second defendant was John Ambrosio, of Huntington. He's the alleged captain in the Gambino organized crime family. He's 76 years old and serving 51 months for racketeering.
The government argued, "The litany of medical conditions he cites in his motion are wholly uncorroborated. They should be viewed with extreme skepticism given his history and characteristics."
The judge said "one letter from a doctor is not going to make any in-roads" - and that she would need to see more medical records.
For now, both defendants remain behind bars.
http://longisland.news12.com/story/41983401/alleged-mobster-expolice-officer-accused-in-murderforhire-plot-plead-for-prison-release
Man with mob ties pleads guilty to federal charges stemming from violent robbery
A man with alleged mob ties and previously convicted for assault
charges as a bookie pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge stemming
from a violent robbery last year in Abington.
William Angelesco, 49, wiped his eye and talked briefly with his attorney on the witness stand before answering a federal judge’s questions in a change of plea hearing in U.S. District Court.
“I agree, I agree,” Angelesco said, responding to Judge Nathaniel Gorton’s question if Angelesco disagreed with a prosecutor’s details of the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Kaplan, in telling Gorton what feds would prove in a trial, said Angelesco was tied to an assault on an Abington man’s business selling sneakers and marijuana last September.
Three men allegedly assaulted the victim, screaming “where’s the cash,” and eventually fleeing with 3-4 pounds of marijuana, sneakers and $1,000. Kaplan said the victim spotted the suspects’ license plate, which was tied to Angelesco’s rental car, and investigators used phone records and a blood sample to match Angelesco to the scene.
Angelesco, arrested in Maine last year, faces a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison for the single count of interfering with commerce by threats or violence. No plea agreement was signed ahead of the hearing.
Attorney Carmine Lepore said outside the courtroom he and Angelesco “just felt it was the appropriate time to go forward with a plea.”
Angelesco in 2005 was acquitted of on charges surrounding the death of the owner of a Revere strip club. He had ties to alleged mobster Peter “Chief Crazy Horse” Limone, who infamously served 33 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
Limone was later awarded $19 million by a federal judge over his imprisonment, but was also given five years of probation for his gambling syndicate in 2010 and ordered to stay away from Angelesco, among dozens of other figures.
Angelesco in 2008 pleaded guilty to state charges including extortion and assault and battery to collect a loan and was given a seven-year prison sentence.
Court filings say Angelesco has been detained since his November arrest. He will remain behind bars until his sentencing in July.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/03/16/ex-bookie-with-alleged-mob-ties-pleads-guilty-in-violent-abington-incident/
William Angelesco, 49, wiped his eye and talked briefly with his attorney on the witness stand before answering a federal judge’s questions in a change of plea hearing in U.S. District Court.
“I agree, I agree,” Angelesco said, responding to Judge Nathaniel Gorton’s question if Angelesco disagreed with a prosecutor’s details of the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Kaplan, in telling Gorton what feds would prove in a trial, said Angelesco was tied to an assault on an Abington man’s business selling sneakers and marijuana last September.
Three men allegedly assaulted the victim, screaming “where’s the cash,” and eventually fleeing with 3-4 pounds of marijuana, sneakers and $1,000. Kaplan said the victim spotted the suspects’ license plate, which was tied to Angelesco’s rental car, and investigators used phone records and a blood sample to match Angelesco to the scene.
Angelesco, arrested in Maine last year, faces a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison for the single count of interfering with commerce by threats or violence. No plea agreement was signed ahead of the hearing.
Attorney Carmine Lepore said outside the courtroom he and Angelesco “just felt it was the appropriate time to go forward with a plea.”
Angelesco in 2005 was acquitted of on charges surrounding the death of the owner of a Revere strip club. He had ties to alleged mobster Peter “Chief Crazy Horse” Limone, who infamously served 33 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
Limone was later awarded $19 million by a federal judge over his imprisonment, but was also given five years of probation for his gambling syndicate in 2010 and ordered to stay away from Angelesco, among dozens of other figures.
Angelesco in 2008 pleaded guilty to state charges including extortion and assault and battery to collect a loan and was given a seven-year prison sentence.
Court filings say Angelesco has been detained since his November arrest. He will remain behind bars until his sentencing in July.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/03/16/ex-bookie-with-alleged-mob-ties-pleads-guilty-in-violent-abington-incident/
Monday, April 6, 2020
Criminals are seeking early release from prison because of coronavirus
Thousands of local, state and federal inmates are pushing to get out from behind bars, calling the jails and prisons “petri dishes” for the coronavirus.
Everyone from killers, drug traffickers and gang members to mobsters, fraudsters and accused rapists are making a bid to get out of the clink.
They are aided by defense lawyers suing for their release, usually citing underlying health issues that make them at risk of catching the deadly disease in crowded conditions.
One inmate at the state prison in Sing Sing died and at least eight federal prisoners in different facilities have fallen victim to the virus, prompting US Attorney General William Barr to push officials to increase the use of home confinement.
Defense attorneys argue coronavirus could be a death sentence for inmates like 81-year-old Rosie Baker, who has kidney disease and diabetes and has been incarcerated for nearly 23 years. Baker and her son Vance were convicted in the June 1997 murder-for-hire of her lover, Dr. Daniel Hodge, as the mother and son’s $2 million Medicaid fraud scheme was unraveling in Brooklyn.
Also seeking release is accused killer Ramzidden Trowell, 42, an HIV-positive asthmatic who is being held at Rikers Island on charges he fatally stabbed a straphanger in the Bronx who opened a subway gate for him.
A judge approved 75-year-old businessman Morris Zukerman’s bid to serve out his tax evasion sentence at home. Zukerman, convicted of dodging $45 million in taxes over 15 years, was sentenced in 2017 to nearly six years in prison.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the release of 1,100 parole violators last week, while the city has let 300 inmates out of Rikers and put them up in hotels. Lawyers are seeking the release of at least another 530 from federal facilities, and public defenders are seeking to get approximately 400 more out. While the city’s district attorneys have consented to the release of some inmates — 272 in Manhattan; about 200 in Brooklyn; 80 in Queens and 63 in the Bronx — prosecutors aren’t giving a thumbs up to every prisoner who is seeking home confinement or outright freedom.
Here’s a sample of inmates asking for leniency in the face of the pandemic:
Dean Skelos
Monzer Al-Kassar
Frantz Petion
Jonathan Deutsch
Juan Angel Napout
The Paraguayan FIFA official was sentenced to nine years in the clink on federal racketeering charges in 2018 as part of a sprawling international soccer bribery scandal. The 61-year-old, who has served more than two years, has been “a model prisoner,” his lawyers claim, and “now has a real fear of dying in prison without seeing his family again.” He’s seeking home confinement for six months while the virus rages, before serving out the remainder of his sentence at federal lock up in Miami, where he’s been teaching Spanish, history and geography classes to other inmates.Michael “Baldy Mike” Spinelli
In 1992, the reputed Lucchese family mobster was the getaway driver for a failed assassination attempt on a Brooklyn mom of three in her driveway. The botched hit was supposed to be a message to the woman’s brother — Lucchese soldier Peter “Fat Pete” Chiodo, a government witness. Convicted in 1998, Spinelli was sentenced to nearly 25 years. The 66-year-old gangster isn’t supposed to get out until 2029, but his lawyers insist he is now a yoga teacher with a “calm, positive influence on those around him,” and should be allowed to finish his sentence at home instead of in the coronavirus-infected Metropolitan Correctional Center.https://nypost.com/2020/04/04/mobsters-killers-rapists-seeking-prison-release-because-of-coronavirus/
Friday, April 3, 2020
Widow of deceased Canadian mob boss robbed of her jewelry while she was at home
The house in Laval that now-deceased Mob boss Vito Rizzuto moved into months after he returned from having served time behind bars in the U.S. was broken into this week, according to La Presse.
Citing unnamed sources, the online newspaper reported Friday that Rizzuto’s widow, Giovanna Cammalleri, was inside the home, in the city’s Ste-Dorothée district, at the time but did not witness what happened.
Constable Stéphanie Beshara, a spokesperson for the Laval police, would not confirm that the victim of the crime was Rizzuto’s widow. She noted that it is standard policy for the police force to not identify the victim of a crime.
She confirmed that someone broke into a home in the Ste-Dorothée district at around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday by smashing a window and entering the home.
“A woman who was inside was watching television at the time and didn’t hear what happened. It was only later in the night, when she went to another part of the house, that she noticed a window had been broken and that jewelry had been stolen,” Beshara said, adding the jewelry is believed to be worth several thousand dollars.
The crime would have been unthinkable when Rizzuto was at the height of his power as the head of the Montreal Mafia. He took over the reins from his father Nicolo "Zio Cola" Rizzuto in the 1980s and his connections within the city’s underworld were extensive. Project Colisée, a lengthy investigation into his organization that came to an end in 2006, revealed how extensive his connections were. When a luxury sport utility vehicle that belonged to someone Rizzuto knew was stolen from the parking lot of a restaurant in Dorval, the Mob boss was able to locate it within hours and it was returned quickly.
When the couple moved, they left a much larger house on Antoine-Berthelet Ave. in northern Montreal where the family had lived for decades. The small street came to be known as Mafia Row because Rizzuto’s father, Nicolo, and his brother-in-law Paolo Renda resided on either side of him. At least two other associates of the organization lived on Antoine-Berthelet Ave. as well.
Rizzuto’s father was killed inside his home on Antoine-Berthelet Ave. before his son returned in 2012 and Renda was abducted, in 2010, while he just a short distance from Antoine-Berthelet Ave. Renda has never been seen since.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/vito-rizzutos-widow-robbed-of-her-jewelry/
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